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  • Danny Dawson 6:33 pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    Flickr/Shutterfly Integration Greasemonkey Script 

    A friend asked me recently if she could print some of my graffiti photos to hang on her wall. I was honored and thrilled, and I decided I wanted to make it easier for her. In doing so, I thought it would be nice to offer this tool to everyone else as well.

    Through collaboration with Jason Rhyley, the two of us were able to create a Greasemonkey script for Firefox which adds Shutterfly print ordering capability to Flickr.

    What does that mean? That means you can now order prints of your Flickr photos (or anyone else’s Flickr photos) with just a couple clicks.

    How to get it working:
    1. Install Firefox and Greasemonkey, if you haven’t already. (If you’ve just installed Greasemonkey, you’ll need to restart Firefox once before moving on.)
    2. Right click the link to the Flickr/Shutterfly Integration script and click “Install User Script…” When prompted, click OK.
    3. Go visit a photo page. Down in the bottom-right, in the “Additional Information” section, there will be a link that says “Order Prints”. Click it.
    4. If you want to add more photos to your order, repeat step 3.

    Known issues:

    • If a really large picture is added to the cart, the image dimensions might not pass correctly. If this happens, remove the picture from the cart and try it again. The image should take less time to load the second time around because Firefox will have cached it, and adding it to the cart now should work just fine. This will be fixed in a future release. Fixed. See below.

    I will update this blog post with changes in the future.

    I would also like to strongly recommend Jason’s other Flickr GM scripts. He’s a wizard.

     

    • Saurabh 5:54 pm on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Permalink

      Let me start by thanking you for taking the time for this much needed script to support the ability to order prints from FlicKr.

      I installed the latest version of GM and that seems to have broken your Flickr/Shutterfly script (perhaps due to the usage of GM_xmlhttpRequest). I was wondering if you could update your script to reflect the changes made in GM.

      Thanks.

    • Danny Dawson 3:52 pm on Thursday, August 4, 2005 Permalink

      Saurabh: Jason yet again beat me to the punch and updated the script to work with the most recent version of Greasemonkey (0.3.5).

      Not only did he fix the gm_xmlhttpRequest issue and an issue for when only the “Large” image size is available – he also introduced a couple new little features:
      1. A cancel button
      2. The title and photographer credits are now passed along to Shutterfly to be printed on the back of the photo.

      Rumor has it (Stewart Butterfield being the rumor starter) that Flickr plans to roll out print-ordering capabilities by the end of this month, but it’ll still be nice to have the script around for those who want to stick with Shutterfly or just prefer the simple interface.

    • Jean Gionet 6:27 am on Monday, September 19, 2005 Permalink

      Hi Danny,
      first off.. GREAT script..

      I was just wondering if you script could be modded to include other print sites?
      Since I’m in Canada I’m REALLY interested in getting it going with http://www.walmartphotocentre.ca/walmartcanada/main.jsp
      can this be done?
      thanks a million
      -JG

    • Jon 2:58 pm on Saturday, December 10, 2005 Permalink

      It seems that as of the new versions of Flickr, Greasemonkey, Firefox, etc., that this script is no longer working. Is that correct? It seems the rumors you spoke of were correct, and indeed Flickr’s ordering system is quite nice, and yet they take a long time to send prints, whereas Shutterfly is rather speedy. I wonder if anybody would care to tweak this for Greasemonkey 0.6.4 and the new Flickr?

    • Danny Dawson 10:18 am on Monday, December 12, 2005 Permalink

      Jon,

      I have noticed (since I installed Fx 1.5 and GM 0.6.4) that this script is broken, and if anyone would like to contribute fixes for the depricated functions (which I haven’t yet looked into), I would be happy to post them here.

      I do plan to update the script at some point in the (hopefully near) future, but I can’t make any promises for deadlines at this time. When I do update it, I’ll post another comment here and send you a Flickrmail.

    • Phung Purzycki 12:31 pm on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Permalink

      Respect,

  • Danny Dawson 2:32 pm on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    ShurlThis! 

    I got tired of the gigantic prompt that my last version of this bookmarklet made, and I figured that I might as well go ahead and fix the browser compatibility issues and give it a catchy yet descriptive name…

    Here’s version 0.2 of http://shurl.org/?url=" + escape(location.href) + "&type=advanced&name=" + escape(Nm).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0">ShurlThis!
    (More …)

     

    • naser 11:59 am on Thursday, November 3, 2005 Permalink

      Hmm..i just stole your bookmarklet and will use it as a blummet on blummy.

  • Danny Dawson 10:39 am on Thursday, June 2, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    Customized Short URLs in one click 

    This is an outdated version of this script. There is a newer version available. Read about version 0.2 of ShurlThis!

    I love shortcuts. I can’t tell you how much I love shortcuts.

    I also hate long URLs.

    And I love customization.

    Thus, I present the Custom Shurl Bookmarklet. Just drag and drop it onto your Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox. Hell, it might even work in IE or Safari. I wouldn’t know. I haven’t tested them. Edit: Works in IE 5.2 on the Mac, but not in Safari. It also doesn’t seem to work in IE 6 on the PC.

    There are two ways to use this bookmarklet:

    1. Highlight a word or two on your current page and click the bookmarklet. You’ll be taken to the advanced Shurl result page with a link generated using the highlighted words.
    2. Without highlighting anything, click the bookmarklet. You’ll be prompted to enter a word or phrase which will be used to generate the link.

    Still don’t understand? Just test it out by clicking this link: Custom Shurl Bookmarklet

    I’ve changed all the references above to link to my post with the newest version, but just so I can remember how hilarious it was, here I’ll preserve version 0.1: http://shurl.org/. For example, if you enter ShortcutsRockYeahBabyYeah into the box below, the resulting URL will look like this: http://shurl.org/ShortcutsRockYeahBabyYeah',''))};if(Nm)location.href='http://shurl.org/?url='+escape(location.href)+'&type=advanced&name='+escape(Nm)">Custom Shurl Bookmarklet

     

  • Danny Dawson 10:33 am on Thursday, June 2, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    Flickr Photo Page Enhancer Enhanced Yet Again 

    First, a thanks to Fabricio Zuardi, who wrote the first Flickr Photo Page Enhancer, and another to Jason Rhyley, who then created an enhanced version.

    Another thanks to Carlos Almendarez, whose incessant reposting of my Flickr pictures to his photostream (in order to have access to the easy html) annoyed me enough to seek out the Photo Page Enhancer in the first place.

    The only problem here is that Carlos likes his LJ picture thumbnails larger than Jason’s enhanced script creates them. Thus aroused was my tinkering, and I altered Jason’s script to suit Carlos’ (and my own) needs. Here you are, enjoy:
    Flickr Photo Page Enhancer Enhanced, then Altered

     

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